Matthew Hickey

Hamadryad

Oil on canvas
20" x 16"

An icon, now felled, lives on.

Jazz cafe

Solo performance in Jazz cafe, Newcastle.

Oil on canvas
24cm x 30cm

An intimate performance in the Jazz cafe by an Australian musician playing American Blues on an American guitar in a club in Northern England.

Gypsy Window

Oil on canvas
31" x 24"

Gypsy. Window. Interior. Lighting.

Ohm's Law

Shock pathway through a western sky

Watercolour on Paper
14" x 21"

power lines, trees, shock currents, watercolor, watercolour paintings, powerlines

Screen time: Uncle Pat

Long time coming: Patrick Connolly watching Cat Stevens footage in a Levittown kitchen.

Oil on canvas
39" x 39"

Musician, actor, son, brother, husband, father, husband, favorite uncle. Kid Shamrock. Last scene in the Sopranos. Patrick Joseph Connolly.

Higher and higher

Higher and higher up into the clouds.

Oil on canvas
24.5" x 24.5"

Higher and higher up into the clouds.

Screen time: Steve

Watercolor study of a Wallsend autodidact.

Watercolour and pencil
14" x 20"

Newcastle. Screen time. Wallsend. Figure. Portrait. Pensive. Somber.

Screen time: Steve

Screen time: Steve. Wallsend wise man.

Oil on canvas
24" x 36"

Screen time. Paintings of people looking at screens. Portraits of Newcastle. Geordie Portrait. Portraits of people from Wallsend, Newcastle. Kishna. Autodidact. Meditation portrait.

Tessa at 2 weeks old.

Tessa Niamh Margaret Hickey at 2 weeks old.

Charcoal on Paper
11cm x 8.5cm

Village in the valley

Northumbrian village in a valley in Tynedale.

Oil on canvas
24cm x 29.5cm

Northumberland landscape. Tynedale landscape. Northeast England landscape. Newcastle. Northumberland. Hadrian's wall. Rural. Countryside.

Uncle Jim

Jim Hickey at 86 years of age.

Oil on canvas
24" x 24"

A portrait of Jim Hickey. Oil on canvas. 2104

Uncle John: The Godfather

John Hickey. 1927-2015. Rest in peace.

Oil on canvas
24" x 25"

Portrait of old man. Portrait of Irish American man. Portrait of World War 2 veteran. Portrait of a deacon. Portrait of John Hickey.

Joseph

Joseph Hickey.

Pastel on Paper
16" x 12"

Brooklyn Morning Redux

Watercolour on Paper
20cm x 14cm
Sold

Revisiting another time in a different media. Old friends look north on a Brooklyn morning.

Ohm's Law

Shock pathway through a western sky

Watercolour on Paper
14" x 21"

power lines, trees, shock currents, watercolor, watercolour paintings, powerlines

Gypsy Window

Oil on canvas
31" x 24"

Gypsy. Window. Interior. Lighting.

Jazz cafe

Solo performance in Jazz cafe, Newcastle.

Oil on canvas
24cm x 30cm

An intimate performance in the Jazz cafe by an Australian musician playing American Blues on an American guitar in a club in Northern England.

Juliette

Juliette Maeve Hickey

Oil on canvas
19.5" x 27"

beautiful painting of girl

Screen time: Uncle Pat

Long time coming: Patrick Connolly watching Cat Stevens footage in a Levittown kitchen.

Oil on canvas
39" x 39"

Musician, actor, son, brother, husband, father, husband, favorite uncle. Kid Shamrock. Last scene in the Sopranos. Patrick Joseph Connolly.

Screen time: Sarah 2

Venus with blackberry, laptop, and the undivided attention of the artist.

Oil on canvas
48" x 36"

Brooklyn Morning Redux

Watercolour on Paper
20cm x 14cm
Sold

Revisiting another time in a different media. Old friends look north on a Brooklyn morning.

Juliette

Juliette Maeve Hickey

Oil on canvas
19.5" x 27"

beautiful painting of girl

Miles. June 2013.

Ongoing series

Charcoal on Paper
11cm x 8cm

Drawings of children. Childhood.

Gold Island Nephilim

Nephilim on the gold island. Northumberland.

Watercolour on Paper
14" x 20"

Watercolor, Children, nature, mythology, Nephilim

Miles with Mariokart

Children playing videogames. Screen time. Wii art.

Long Island Shed

Elderly shed in Levittown, seated squat beneath the power lines, laughs at your hurricanes.

Oil on canvas
25" x 15"

Suburban decay. American decay. Ruin lust. Paintings of rust. Oxidation. Old shed. Paintings of old sheds.

Bertie

Bertram Aloysius Augustus Hickey

Oil on canvas
15.5" x 15.5"

Heavenfield

Heavenfield in the morning mist. Military Road. Northumberland.

Oil on canvas
19.5" x 19.5"

Northumberland. Landscape. Paintings of Northumbeland. Realist painting landscape.

Rough Beast

Miles uphill.

Oil on canvas
38cm x 26.5cm

Realist oil painting. Realist figure painting. Northumberland. Landscape. Boy. Tynedale. Oil painting. Figurative painting. Realism.

11756

Post office. Levittown. New York.

Oil on canvas
16" x 20"

Paintings of suburban night.

The Witches Hand of Walwick

Dead Northumbrian Oak still haunts the wall

Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Dead Tree in northumberland.

Turnpike and Gardiners

TSS parking lot, looking west.

Oil on canvas
20" x 27.5"

Painting of parking lot. Nocturns. Nightscapes. Parking lot paintings. Paintings at night. Realist paintings of suburban parking lots at night. Paintings of Levittown.

The Fates

Oil on canvas
36" x 48"

Portrait of the late Joseph Hickey, by Matthew Hickey. December 2019.

Oil on canvas
5 x 3

In the small hours of the second night of March 2015, Joe Hickey died. With the heaviest of hearts, this painting was started on April 2015 and completed in December 2019. I'm grateful for the certainty that he would have loved it, as he rests in richly deserved peace. Matthew Hickey December 2019

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